Monday, January 23, 2012

Rose Garden Conspiracy Theory

Nevermind the Kennedy assassination! Forget all you've heard about 9/11 and the mysterious collapse of WTC7! Here's a conspiracy theory I think we can all agree doesn't pass the "smell test".

I was listening to a recent (January 20, 2012, to be exact) podcast of Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. One segment included a friendly debate over which flower was more well-loved, the rose or the orchid. Weighing in on the side of the rose was horticultural historian Jennifer Potter who recently published an historical account of roses, appropriately entitled, The Rose. She mentioned that she made a trip to the White House in hopes of seeing the famous rose garden during the last summer of the George W. Bush administration. She was able to finagle her way into the garden but was warned there were only about 10 varieties of roses left, 5 of which were named after Republican presidents or their wives. All of the roses named for Democrats had been uprooted.

Whatever shall we read into that??? I myself can envision Dick telling Georgie which flowers had to go.